Staff Engineer, Performativ
+ Equity
Wealth management software
Open for applications
Wealth management software
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise the outdated and underserved wealth management industry across the continent.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve built systems that run in production at scale and understand what breaks
- You have strong intuition for distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and engineering tradeoffs
- Experience in fintech, wealth management, or other regulated environments is a plus, not a requirement
- You do not need everything defined upfront and can operate in ambiguity while still delivering
- You are hands-on and comfortable writing code in critical paths
- You’ve influenced technical direction across teams through credibility, not authority
- You are strong at debugging and getting to root causes quickly
- You focus on what works, not what looks good on paper
- You use AI and agent-based tools to move faster, while staying accountable for the outcome
- You communicate clearly and do not hide behind jargon
- You take ownership and finish what you start
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer, you will take on the hardest technical problems across Performativ’s platform and turn complexity into systems that scale
- You will move to where things break, slow down, or do not scale, and fix them
- You will also help evolve how we build by pushing pragmatic use of AI and agent-based tooling in ways that increase speed without losing control
- Take on the hardest technical problems across the platform and drive them to resolution
- Move across teams and systems to improve scalability, performance, and reliability
- Design and evolve distributed systems operating at million-client scale
- Find weak points early and fix them before they turn into incidents
- Write production-grade code in the parts of the system that matter most
- Turn unclear situations into concrete solutions that ship
- Introduce better ways of working, including pragmatic use of agent-assisted workflows where they add real leverage
- Challenge technical decisions and push for simpler, more robust solutions
- Raise the bar for engineering quality through your actions, not process
- Help teams move faster by removing friction and unnecessary complexity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With the rise of digital-first banking, traditional and legacy financial institutions are struggling to keep up with innovations. Performativ is a digital-first platform for wealth managers and investment advisors, focussing on optimising advisory solutions and the customer experience of high net worth individuals (HNWIs).
Performativ offers front, middle and back-end tools to financial service providers - such as investment advisors - suggesting optimisations for their operations while helping to future-proof financial infrastructure. The company claims to achieve 70% reductions in operating costs and a 2x faster onboarding process - boasting undeniable value for its clients.
Managing over €20B in assets spanning various classes, Performativ caters to the diverse needs of financial institutions and wealth managers, and is positioned to be a key player in reshaping the future of financial services. Recent seed funding will be used to accelerate its growth, expand its offering and increase its client base as it addresses a sector in dire need of digital innovation.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2026
$14m
SERIES A
Nov 2023
$6.5m
SEED
Total funding: $21.2m
Company benefits
- A dynamic work environment: Become part of the energetic atmosphere of a fast-growing FinTech startup
- Flexible Working Hours: Enjoy the flexibility of managing work hours in a way that makes sense for you and your tasks
- Professional Development Fund: Generous annual fee to participate in courses and conferences and improve professional skills and knowledge
- Continuous Feedback Culture: Feedback is frequent, constructive and two-way. Regular check-ins ensure that you are purposeful, recognized and always on a path to growth
- Personal growth: Embrace opportunities for professional and personal development while working alongside some of the brightest minds in the fintech industry
- Collaborative Culture: Here your ideas are heard, your contributions are valued, and your growth is a shared priority
- The Performativ Experience: Get involved with a product that is making waves in the industry
Company HQ
Middelalderbyen, København
Leadership
Peter Barry
(CTO)Previously led Development Operations at Goldman Sachs, was the Founder of cell five and worked as a Cloud Architect and Technical Manager in a consultancy capacity.
Albert Geisler Fox
(CEO)Previously an Investment Consultant at Kirstein and Financial Analyst at TV2 DANMARK. Also worked as a Software Engineer at Meebox.
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